Quotes from Jan Karon

This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books that comes from Him and goes out to my reading audience. I'm forever grateful for that. It's a privilege.

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

Food is a great way of communicating.

When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.